Curatorial tour of Marcin Painta's exhibition “New Madonnas. Tenderness, power and the totem of modernity”

On Friday 20 November, at... we invite you to a curatorial tour of Marcin Painta's exhibition “New Madonnas. Tenderness, power and the totem of modernity” in the Gallery of Contemporary Art Przytyk.

Marcin Painta — studied in the years 2002-2007 at the Faculty of Art Education of the Jan Długosz Academy in Częstochowa, majoring in: Art Education in the Field of Fine Arts, specialising in Workshop Graphics. Diploma realized in a flatbed printing studio. Currently a teacher of the Art and Design School Complex in Tarnowskie Góra.

Paintings, graphics and drawings are in private collections in Poland and abroad. Sweden, Germany, Spain and Canada.

The artist belongs to the interdisciplinary artistic group Młodzi Sztuką. The artist's works took part in an innovative design project — ED-Wall Art Artifacts — works of applied art in limited author collections with a certificate signed by the artist are available in the form of artistic glass mosaics, artistic wallpapers and stickers on doors and furniture. The artist also collaborates with designer Maciej Muszyński, who uses Marcin's painting to create unique collections of Mima bags, which were presented at New York Fashion Week 2015 — DapperAfrika & MIMA bags.

In his achievements, he has participated in more than 100 collective exhibitions and more than 30 individual exhibitions presented in Poland and abroad. His work has been presented in galleries, cultural institutions and during numerous artistic events. Warsaw Art Fair, Preview Berlin Art Fair, Art Basel and ARCOmadrid.

Selected exhibitions and achievements:

Livestream, MGS in Częstochowa, 2020

La Nature feminine, Fort de Mons Gallery, Mons in Baroeul, Lille, France, 2019

Cuadros recientes pintados, La Boba Y El Gato Rancio, Valencia, Spain, 2016

Woman in frame/Portraits of women, Le Bistro Rozbrat, Warsaw, 2015

Marcin Painta, Back Door Gallery, Katowice, 2014

Preview Berlin Art Fair, Opern Werkstatten, Berlin, 2013

Gdańsk Biennale of Art “Identity of Place” — Günter Grass Gallery, Gdańsk, 2010

Honorary Award of the Board of the Association of Polish Artists and Visual Artists of Katowice, 2017

GRAND PRIX, Muse Exhibitions, 2nd Birthday Gala Art Imperium, Warsaw, 2014

2nd place — International Photography Competition BikeShot, Skene Gallery, Jelenia Góra, 2010

About the exhibition:

Exhibition “New Madonnas. Tenderness, power and the totem of modernity” presents a series of images and objects inspired by the Madonna archetype, filtered through the language of contemporary visual sensibility, pop culture and personal symbolism. It is a story about woman as a source of life, knowledge and transformation — not in a religious sense, but in a universal, bodily and emotional sense.

The artist reinterprets the classic theme of the sacrum, replacing traditional halos with pulsating circles of energy, ornament and color. Madonna's characters are at the same time guardians, warriors and guides — they wear sunglasses, they hold totems, animals or hybrid children that symbolize the future, intuition and the constant evolution of man. A subdued palette of colors and rhythmic patterns build a world on the border of dream, myth and everyday life.

Age: BO Duration: 1 h Exhibition curator: Mateusz Jankowski Coordinator: Kornelia Wilk

The opening of the exhibition will take place: 06.11.2026 (Friday) at 18:30 Guided tour of the exhibition: 20.11.2026 (Friday), at 17:00 The exhibition will last until: 29.11.2026.

Free admission